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Mumbai-Delhi Sangharsh Yartra flagged off
The Mumbai-Delhi Sangarsh Yatra against the mammoth Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) was flagged off on the occasion of international women's day from the iconic Azad Maidan in Mumbai by women activists from Lavasa, Wang Marathwad, Narmada, Kanjhawala, Delhi, Aurangabad, Pune, Golibar and many bastis of Mumbai in the presence of noted Marathi writer Hirabai Daya Pawar.

The schedule or the Yatra is as follows:- 9th  March - Raigad/Karla (Pune); 10th March – Dhule/Nandurbar; 11th March – Aurangabad/Sinnar; 12th March – Umargam (Nargol); 13th March – Surat; 14th March – Ahmadebad/Mehsana; 15th March – Ujjain; 16th March – Udaipur/ Pithampur Industrial area Village Kali Billod; 17th March – Jaipur/Rewari; 18th  March – "Kisan-Khetmazdoor Mahapanchayat" @Jantar Mantar and 19th March - Convention on "Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor: Myths and Facts" @ Indian Social Institute, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.

Women gift life but are repaid with violence and destruction. This was witnessed today as more than 1000 women from different bastis came together to pledge to carry forward the struggle. On the previous day, they bravely stood against bulldozers and the police who with the support of goons of the Shivalik builders, broke down their homes.

They had also saw the Maharashtra government showing it true face, beating up women on the eve of women’s day arresting Neha, Johara, Prerna Gaekwad along with Medha Patkar for resisting the demolition at Golibar and Andheri. Dr. Sunilam of Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, Madhya Pradesh condemned the violence against women and said that women in Chindwara, Madhya Pradesh are facing goons of Adani group.

Their struggle is the same everywhere. Today, capitalist forces want to take away even whatever is left with the poorest of the poor. A small piece of land on which our houses stand whether in cities or farms, is gold. They want it all and that is what is at stake in the DMIC, a 1483 kms highway with an influence area equal to 14% of total land in India and affecting 17% of the population. 70% of the project influence area is agricultural land therefore seriously impacting the food security of the country.

Women from every field – academics, literature, media, development etc., were present for the event. Women representatives from various movements, places and organisations like India Against Corruption, the Yusuf Mehrally Centre etc., were also active participants of the events passionately expressing their concerns, complaints and opinions. The children from the Balanandwan Alisarg Kendra, Dahanu road closed the event with a play on evils done against women.  

The MumbaiDelhi Sangharsh Yatra is joined by activists from ten states of the country and will pass through Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh . They will finally reach Delhi on 18thMarch for the Kisan – Mazdoor Mahapanchayat. The Yatra is an organised effort to bring together various struggles going across the corridor as it violates all rights of democratically elected Gram Sabhasa and Panchayats  and threatens fundamental rights and environmental balance.

Medha Patkar, Dr. Sunilam, Suniti SR, Gyaneshwar Shedge, Lingraj Azad, Rajsingh, Vedvati, Kamla Yadav, Prema bhai, Atik Ahmed, Suhas kolhekar, Suniti S.R, Sumit Wajale, Prerna Gaekwad, Jameelbhai, Prasad Bagwe, Seela M., Madhuresh  and many others will travel from Mumbai to Delhi.

 

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